Acer Aspire One D250
There are a lot of netbooks under the Aspire One banner. Here's a third-party website that lists them (at least up through 2009): Aspire One Cheatsheet
- Booted with acpi=off to keep from hanging on acpi module loading
- Had to drop to other console, wipe partition table with fdisk before cfdisk would work
See the Beginners' guide for more information.
Contents
Wifi
See Broadcom wireless.
Xorg
See Xorg and Intel graphics.
Hardware
Here's lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8132 Fast Ethernet (rev c0)
Fn Keycodes
The Aspire One US keyboard when operating under WinXP has a number of special keys which are accessed by holding down the Function/Fn key and the relevant key. Some of these operate under Arch as well, but most do not.
Fn+ | Action in WinXP | Console Keycode/Effect | X Keycode/Effect |
---|---|---|---|
Left Arrow | LCD Brighten | 112; works OOB but also types "?" character | No symbol; works OOB |
Down Arrow | Volume Down | 114 | XF86AudioLowerVolume |
Right Arrow | LCD Dim | 118; works OOB but also types "?" character | plusminus; works OOB but also types +/- symbol |
Pg Up | Home | 102 | Home |
Up Arrow | Volume Up | 115 | XF86AudioRaiseVolume |
Pg Dn | End | 107 | End |
m | Keypad 0 | 82; works with NumLk on | with Fn gives KP_Insert; works with NumLk on |
. | Keypad . | 83; works with NumLk on | with Fn gives KP_Delete; works with NumLk on |
/ | Keypad + | 78; works with NumLk on | works |
j | Keypad 1 | 79; works with NumLk on | with Fn gives KP_End; works with NumLk on |
k | Keypad 2 | 80; works with NumLk on | with Fn gives KP_Down; works with NumLk on |
l | Keypad 3 | 81; works with NumLk on | with Fn gives KP_Next; works with NumLk on |
; | Keypad - | 74; works with NumLk on | with Fn gives KP_; works with NumLk on |
u | Keypad 4 | 75; works with NumLk on | with Fn gives KP_Left; works with NumLk on |
l | Keypad 5 | 76; works with NumLk on | with Fn gives KP_Begin; works with NumLk on |
o | Keypad 6 | 77; works with NumLk on | with Fn gives KP_Right; works with NumLk on |
p | Keypad * | 55; works with NumLk on | works |
7 | Keypad 7 | 71; | |
8 | Keypad 8 | 72; | |
9 | Keypad 9 | 73; | |
0 | Keypad / | 98; | |
F1 | Launch Fn key help | None | |
F2 | Launch System Properties | None | |
F3 | Launch Power Options | None | |
F4 | Sleep Mode | None | |
F5 | Toggle to external display | 225 | |
F6 | Turn off LCD backlight | Works OOB | |
F7 | Turn touchpad off/on | Works OOB | |
F8 | Mute/unmute | None | |
F11 | NumLk | None; works (including LED) | |
F12 | Scr Lk | None |
As you can see, some of the stuff "Just Works" and some of the stuff (Fn+F1, F2, F3) will never work, since it doesn't produce a keycode of any sort. I used Compiz keybindings deal with the things in the middle and to compensate for the things that won't ever work.
Keys | Action in WinXP | Bound Action | Commandline |
---|---|---|---|
Alt+F1 | Launch Fn key help | Launch Xorg man page browser | export MANPATH=/usr/share/man; xman -notopbox |
Alt+F2 | Launch System Properties | Launch GTK hardware browser | /usr/bin/gksu /usr/sbin/lshw-gtk |
F3 | Launch Power Options | Launch GTK power properties browser | /usr/bin/gnome-power-statistics |
F4 | Sleep Mode | Suspend to RAM | /usr/bin/dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.UPower" /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend |
F5 | Toggle to external display |